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la ninpre
Lizbeth
yesterday at 0:16

I can now share the artwork I designed for the new @shonalika dark wave banger, with lyrics written in toki pona (!!)

shonalika.bandcamp.com/track/p
yesterday at 3:29 | Open on merveilles.town
la ninpre

@bd i've been reading through your amazing notes on music theory and noticed something odd in the counterpoint section:

> Perfect consonances (II, IV, VII).

is this a typo? shouldn't this be 'dissonances'?

24 October at 5:13 | Open on merveilles.town
Bad Diode

@la_ninpre typo! should be dissonances indeed, fixed!

24 October at 7:21 | Open on merveilles.town
la ninpre
The Real Grunfink
23 October at 15:03
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.61 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Migration from a Mastodon account to a snac one has been implemented. Please see snac(8) (the administrator manual) for more information.

Mastodon API: fixed timelines/public (it was showing less posts that it should).

Fixed over-zealous caching to the public timeline.

Some HTML tweaks and fixes to the web interface.

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/grunfink

#snacAnnounces

This release has been inspired by the painting The Hands Resist Him by #BillStoneham.

I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.61 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Migration from a Mastodon account to a snac one has been implemented. Please see
23 October at 19:54 | Open on merveilles.town
It's Just Me
Thank you! My "small instance" has just been upgraded. No problems so far.
23 October at 18:04 | Open on mysmallinstance.homelinux.org
ティージェーグレェ
I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.61 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26287

GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks are progressing (3 out of 4 passed, which is a good sign; I guess MacPorts recently started checking 4 OS versions on GitHub automatically instead of 3 so this is taking a bit longer than I am accustomed to, it seems as if the macos-15 checks in particular are sluggish, maybe that system is overloaded?).

Regardless, it's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

Neat to see more Mastodon migration improvements! I think I saw one person already boast of successes of migrating their followers to a snac instance!

Thank you for your hard work and continuing to make my favorite ActivityPub implementation even better!

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces
I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.61 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26287

23 October at 22:32 | Open on snac.bsd.cafe
la ninpre

aaoth.xyz is currently down, i am going to move it to different vps and that is going to take some time. i don't know if anyone will notice that, but anyway.

20 October at 6:45 | Open on merveilles.town
la ninpre

it seems that aaoth.xyz will be down for quite some time. can't say that i carefully planned this transition, but i anticipated i could do it earlier.

23 October at 7:26 | Open on merveilles.town
la ninpre
R E K
17 October at 17:13

I am very happy to announce that Rabbit Waves is out!

The idea for this project came after @neauoire & I were discussing the disappearance of certain traditional seasteading skills and maritime communication knowledge. We believe these skills are valuable when electronics misbehave, but they're also just generally fun to learn and to use.

All of the art is drawn by hand :>! We will add more content as we go!

rabbitwaves.ca/
17 October at 18:48 | Open on merveilles.town
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Daruma

@rek @neauoire
I’m so excited about this! I’mma add it to my rss!

19 October at 21:53 | Open on mstdn.party
🌀bedient Lady

@rek

@neauoire

This is really neat! I'll have to check it out more in depth later.

I wonder what the politics behind choosing Norwegian over Swedish or Danish was. It's the least populous and newest of the three, and from what my Norwegian friends have said, they're considered the bumpkins of the three. They're all interoperable with each other, so that doesn't matter so much, but still.

(Now I'm wondering if the official code books are written in both Bokmål and Nyorsk, (the two official written languages of Norwegian,).)

@rek

@neauoire

This is really neat! I'll have to check it out more in depth later.

I wonder what the politics behind choosing Norwegian over Swedish or Danish was. It's the least populous and newest of the three, and from what my Norwegian friends have said, they're considered the bumpkins of the three. They're all interoperable with each other, so that doesn't matter so much, but still.

20 October at 11:51 | Open on mastodon.triggerphra.se
DHeadshot's Alt

@rek @neauoire This is pretty cool! I notice, though, the homepage was a perfect case for imagemaps, but you didn't use them? Was that a deliberate design decision?

20 October at 20:22 | Open on topspicy.social
la ninpre
R E K
14 October at 16:16

As an adult I am embarrassed to say that I learned very late how to care for my teeth.

I wrote this short post to share what I have learned.

kokorobot.ca/site/keeping_teet

14 October at 20:00 | Open on merveilles.town
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Lizbeth

@rek that's so real, i'm in the same spot now, slowly working on improving body maintenance routines. I've been tackling skin care recently, this motivates me to work on my teeth next :)

14 October at 18:21 | Open on merveilles.town
Daniel Demmel

@rek thanks a lot for writing this up!

One thing that neither you nor replies have mentioned is using an electric toothbrush. Dentists here in the UK mention it on each visit and it did make a huge difference for me. You don't have to push so hard (so easier on the gums) and it still cleans better. The batteries are tiny so wouldn't add much load on the boat, but the ones that clean the best unfortunately have irreplaceable batteries so you end up having to replace them every 5 years or so...

14 October at 20:19 | Open on fosstodon.org
Björn 🎃 Starkimarm

@rek
I had to learn, that even sugarless beverages are harmful if they are acidic (almost everything is either or both). Don't drink too much of them and drink (non-carbonated) water afterwards (also after meals).

15 October at 6:52 | Open on 23.social
la ninpre
Mycorrhiza
5 October at 19:36

Mycorrhiza 1.15.1, a new version of the self-hosted opinionated #wiki engine for the independent web, is released.

Some bugs fixed, internal refactorings made.

mycorrhiza.wiki/hypha/release/

🍄
6 October at 6:20 | Open on merveilles.town
la ninpre

i haven't tried these things before, so let's see how i'll do.

#drawtober #1 - going home
1 October at 16:32 | Open on merveilles.town
la ninpre
la ninpre
sad axolotl :capybara_heart:
24 September at 14:30

Дорогие все, мы с коллегой сделали штуку, наш магнум опус: небольшой бесплатный курс по некоторым основам открытой науки.

Мы сделали его в первую очередь для библиотекарей, как курс повышения квалификации. Поэтому, разумеется, там большой упор на деятельность библиотек. Но, кроме этого, есть и общие темы: в целом про научное волонтерство, аналитико-синтетическую переработку информации, ресурсы открытого доступа, научные коммуникации немного. Может быть, вам тоже будет интересно?

И, на самом деле, я прошу помощи: чтобы курс был доступен, нужно, чтобы его некоторое количество человек прошло. Или протыкало. И поставило оценку. Если у вас будет желание нам помочь - или послушать, что мы там наговорили - пожалуйста, полюбопытствуйте. ​:nacho_hug:​

Дорогие все, мы с коллегой сделали штуку, наш магнум опус: небольшой бесплатный курс по некоторым основам открытой науки.

Мы сделали его в первую очередь для библиотекарей, как курс повышения квалификации. Поэтому, разумеется, там большой упор на деятельность библиотек. Но, кроме этого, есть и общие темы: в целом про научное волонтерство, аналитико-синтетическую переработку информации, ресурсы открытого доступа, научные коммуникации немного. Может быть, вам тоже будет интересно?

И, на самом деле,...

24 September at 15:10 | Open on merveilles.town
Шуро
Клипарт в первой лекции няшный.
24 September at 15:34 | Open on friends.deko.cloud
Ламотриджиновая Ломка :tsf:

@Chia а что есть аббревиатура "АСПИ" из описания курса?

24 September at 16:29 | Open on craba.cab
la ninpre

i've become obsessed with fold-and-cut theorem lately. then i got this idea to unify two pieces of beautiful geometry into one :)

for those who don't know:
cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/
erikdemaine.org/foldcut/

if you spot any errors, or if you can come up with a simpler crease patterns, let me know! i tested these multiple times, they seem to be correct.
21 September at 17:59 | Open on merveilles.town
la ninpre

(i should've done it a long time ago, but something always was on my way. anyway, ...)
i finally managed to migrate my music to my own faircamp thingy!

aaoth.xyz/music/

sadly, i haven't made anything sound (pun intended) for the last four years or so, but i hope to fix that someday. i have a lot of unfinished stuff that i would like to see released.

and as a disclaimer, note that everything down the bottom there is very early, ahem, 'music'. expect suboptimal mastering and low quality.

(i should've done it a long time ago, but something always was on my way. anyway, ...)
i finally managed to migrate my music to my own faircamp thingy!

aaoth.xyz/music/

sadly, i haven't made anything sound (pun intended) for the last four years or so, but i hope to fix that someday. i have a lot of unfinished stuff that i would like to see released.

12 August at 12:40 | Open on merveilles.town
la ninpre

a few thoughts about faircamp?

well, it is very nice to have such thing. i think hosting my music by myself was my primary goal of having a website in the first place.

but some things i don't like as much. i don't like that it spits out weird html, it doesn't generate hierarchical links. it is also using some weird manifest language (eno).

i wanted to create something like faircamp myself, but never actually had the time. so for now i'll just use that.

12 August at 12:44 | Open on merveilles.town
під'їхав на ​ꙋделкꙋ​ 🍄

@la_ninpre Репостнул, хотя у меня не открылось...😢

12 August at 12:47 | Open on metalhead.club
la ninpre
The Real Grunfink
8 August at 4:39
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.57 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Added support for listening on UNIX-like sockets.

Don't allow empty polls.

Added support for Markdown-style images (converted to attachments) and strikethrough text.

Added support for incoming Move messages: when received, the new account is followed and the old one is unfollowed.

Incoming EmojiReact messages are internally converted to Like (more proper support will happen eventually).

Blocks are also notified.

Mastodon API: fixed a cache bug when following local users.

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/grunfink

#snacAnnounces

I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.57 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Added support for listening on UNIX-like sockets.
8 August at 7:45 | Open on merveilles.town
la ninpre
Aaron Rainbolt
5 August at 18:36

#Ventoy Security Concerns (please boost for visibility)

Ventoy is a popular utility for making USB drives containing multiple operating systems in the form of bootable image files. While very useful in theory, the source tree contains numerous binary blobs without source code. This issue has been brought up to the authors multiple times, have not been corrected, and have even gotten worse (more blobs have been added to the code over time). This is a potential malware vector, similar to the "test files" in the xz-utils backdoor catastrophe.

Recently the author has ignored a very lengthy thread raising security concerns because of these binary blobs. Given the amount of attention the thread has gotten, this seems strange, especially given that the authors have been active since then. github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issue

Stranger yet still, a video by Veronica Explains (@vkc) on how to create bootable USB flash drives got flooded by comments heavily suggesting the use of Ventoy and even being somewhat accusing because Veronica didn't advertise Ventoy. This is... not anything I've seen users of ANY open-source project do, and it feels similar to the social engineering done against Lasse Collin that convinced him to add Jia Tan as a maintainer, thus compromising xz-utils. See the comments of youtube.com/watch?v=QiSXClZauX

If you're using Ventoy, you may want to consider ceasing its use for the time being out of an abundance of caution. If you truly need its functionality, you might look into something like the IODD SSD Enclosure (iodd.shop/HDD/SSD-Enclosure) which can emulate an optical drive and allows you to select an ISO saved to the drive to boot from.

#linux #boot #security #malicious #backdoor

#Ventoy Security Concerns (please boost for visibility)

Ventoy is a popular utility for making USB drives containing multiple operating systems in the form of bootable image files. While very useful in theory, the source tree contains numerous binary blobs without source code. This issue has been brought up to the authors multiple times, have not been corrected, and have even gotten worse (more blobs have been added to the code over time). This is a potential malware vector, similar to the "test...

6 August at 11:10 | Open on merveilles.town
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Mikle_Bond

@arraybolt3 @untsuki @vkc

This is... not anything I've seen users of ANY open-source project do, [...]

Try telling neovim people that you've tried it, but liked vim more. I've witnessed this statement to ignite at least twice.

On a less sarcastic note: I don't see anything suspicious in the comments section on YouTube. Did the offensive comments sink too far into the timeline, or were they deleted by now? As of now, most of them are praises and mentions of Rufus/Etcher.

6 August at 13:02 | Open on pony.social
「羽飛やこう：最不調和の化身」

@arraybolt3@theres.life @vkc@linuxmom.net The comments may look like a replay of the Jia Tan incident, but it isn't like forcing someone to hand out their maintenance role to another like last time. I can see where those people are coming from, because just like them, I'm somewhat a Ventoy fan booting several ISOs for system installations and repairs. If I watched her video, I'm likely to leave a comment on why leaving Ventoy out too, and I also see avid fans of certain pieces of products bombarding recommendations when they see a list doesn't contain what they love.
The solution you recommended requires purchasing a separate piece of hardware is sadly not feasible in a broader context. Where thumb drives could be obtained relatively cheaply, those pieces of hardware you recommended cost around 50 euros for a single one. On the cost front alone, the temporary solution offered isn't likely to attract a crowd of any significance.
I must admit however the binary blobs are indeed quite questionable, as I also went through the nightmare of manually downgrading the packages on a fleet of servers myself during that xz incident, writing a call-out post after that. I can't say I'll be stopping using Ventoy at all in the foreseeable future until another all-software solution makes its scene, but I'll keep this disturbing fact in mind.

Edit: Sifting through the comment section, I found @attilax@framapiaf.org mentioning MultiSystem (use machine translation if you cannot read French), which was sadly discontinued over two years ago.

@arraybolt3@theres.life @vkc@linuxmom.net The comments may look like a replay of the Jia Tan incident, but it isn't like forcing someone to hand out their maintenance role to another like last time. I can see where those people are coming from, because just like them, I'm somewhat a Ventoy fan booting several ISOs for system installations and repairs. If I watched her video, I'm likely to leave a comment on why leaving Ventoy out too, and I also see avid fans of certain pieces of products bombarding...

6 August at 14:17 | Open on hooves.social
:babyrapereenactment: bill [figger]
@arraybolt3 @vkc shitty win10 install now infected with chinese spyware i guess
6 August at 14:35 | Open on cum.salon
la ninpre
Tomáš
22 July at 9:42

Please, consider financially supporting my work. Every $ helps.

analognowhere.com/support

Thank you.

There's also new `merch' in celebration of the monochrome #oldcomputerchallenge

redbubble.com/shop/ap/16311373

#unix_surrealism #technomage #mutualaid
22 July at 12:11 | Open on merveilles.town
mostlypat

@prahou tshirt on its way now :)

Regrettably I ordered it with Firefox not Links, but oh well (sometimes you gotta be unix-real to be unix-surreal)

22 July at 10:13 | Open on mastodon.social
la ninpre
Bryan Steele :flan_beard:
9 July at 18:41

If you run #OpenBSD and like playing games, I recommend checking out IndieRunner, which was committed to ports today. It was made by fellow OpenBSD developer Thomas Frohwein (thfr@), building upon his previous work for FNA titles (fnaify), adding support for multiple engines/runtimes.

github.com/IndieRunner/IndieRu

marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs

#PlayOnBSD

10 July at 7:00 | Open on merveilles.town
la ninpre
la ninpre
m15o
4 July at 9:35

I just added a way to resize rows in Yon - hope that's helpful!

m15o.ichi.city/yon/
#theWorkshop

5 July at 10:02 | Open on merveilles.town
la ninpre

@bouncepaw i think there's a typo in mycorrhiza 1.15 changelog.

> We do using recommend the ISO format throughout your wikis

shouldn't that be

> We do recommend using the ISO format throughout your wikis

?

29 June at 19:40 | Open on merveilles.town
the bouncing paw 🎃

@la_ninpre indeed, thank you! Fixed. By the way, if you ever come across other typos, you can edit them yourself, it's a wiki after all.

29 June at 20:42 | Open on merveilles.town
la ninpre
Mycorrhiza
29 June at 16:14

Is it happening?

Mycorrhiza is a free self-hosted #wiki engine developed by @bouncepaw and the wonderful contributors. It features file-based storage, history, a custom markup language, categories, among other features.

Mycorrhiza 1.15 is finally released today! Among changes: linked diffs in Recent changes, /today and /edit-today links, changeable passwords, PDF/printer CSS, and more.

mycorrhiza.wiki/hypha/release/

Happy gardening!

#DigitalGarden #IndieWeb
29 June at 19:34 | Open on merveilles.town
The Peter Pan of Nerdery™ 🇦🇺

@mycorrhiza @bouncepaw Love wiki software. Going to check this out later (and compare it to #Dokuwiki).

29 June at 23:29 | Open on mastodon.social
The Peter Pan of Nerdery™ 🇦🇺

@mycorrhiza @bouncepaw Weird. Literally not a single video on YouTube matching the search terms “mycorrhiza wiki”. Nobody’s done a how-to or anything for it??

Edit: No Windows installation guide. Bup-bowww.

30 June at 1:25 | Open on mastodon.social
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